At the age of seven, Bobby got raped several times by a neighborhodd teenage boy who used to babysit him and his younger brothers and sisters. ... Patty`s son Junior, the third generation, got even involved into gangfights, guns and rape. The familiy lived a life in and out of prison. There were times when two or more family members were detained in the same prison. ... He acknoledges that he finds it difficult to negotiate life outside prison- (Dash, 132). ...

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Due to the war on drugs, State and Federal prisons can no longer afford to house violent criminals for appropriate amounts of time. ... Lamar Grey was arrested, tried, convicted, fined $25,000 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. While, Larry Singleton raped a teenage girl, mutilated her, chopped off her arms, and left her in the desert to die. He was arrested, tried, convicted, and received the maximum penalty of 14 years in prison - of which he only served 8( Nadelmann, "Thinking seriously about alternatives to the drug prohibition" 124) Economically, the production of drugs...

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And the attendant self-consciousness and diminished self-image throb through her bodily prison until the bladder can do nothing but explode in a parody of release (freedom)- (Bloom3 5) Another struggle Maya faces in Caged Bird occurs when she is only seven years old and is raped by her mother's boyfriend. ...

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